1888 in Belgium
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The following lists events that happened during 1888 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- Belgian State Railways Type 12 taken into service.
- 27 May â Provincial elections
- 12 June â Partial legislative elections of 1888
- August â Preaching of Charles Lavigerie in Brussels Minster inspires the founding of the Belgian Anti-Slavery Society
- 26-27 August â Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London, visits Dendermonde
Publications
- Periodicals
- Het Laatste Nieuws begins publication
- Studies
- Theodore Low De Vinne, Christopher Plantin, and the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp (Grolier Club, New York)[3]
- Literature
- J.-H. Rosny, Les Xipéhuz
- Ãmile Verhaeren, Les Soirs and Les Débâcles
Art and architecture
- Paintings
- Robert Alott, Am Strand von Ostende
- Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Alice Sethe
- Opera
- Patrie! performed at Ghent (25 January) and Antwerp (6 March)
Births
- 2 February â Valerius Coucke, biblical scholar (died 1951)
- 19 February â Hector Tiberghien, cyclist (died 1951)
- 29 February â Fanny Heldy, opera singer (died 1973)
- 4 March â Charles Leirens, photographer and musician (died 1963)
- 19 March â Léon Scieur, coureur cycliste (died 1969)
- 23 May â Dieudonné Saive, small arms designer (died 1970)
- 14 July â Odile Defraye, cyclist (died 1965)
- 11 August â Paul Loicq, hockey administrator (died 1953)
- 16 October â Ãmile Masson, cyclist (died 1973)
- 2 December â Omer Verschoore, cyclist (died 1932)
Deaths
- 8 January â Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans (born 1811), painter
- 6 February â Gaston Errembault de Dudzeele (born 1819), diplomat
- 17 July â Henricus Franciscus Bracq (born 1804), bishop of Ghent
- 20 July â Henri de Braekeleer (born 1840), painter
- 15 August â Alexandre Jamar (born 1821), businessman
- 8 October â Jules d'Anethan (born 1803), politician
